Trashy Thursday Part 4

Oh how glad I am this is the last Thursday! While I successfully kept whatever it was from tearing my bags open, the smell is still very strong. Duh! I know. The first picture is all trash, not a much as I thought I'd have.



This second picture is of recyclable items. Cardboard, newspaper, glass, alunimum.
I wish I could say these were biodegradable bags but I just found out they make those!! After we run out of these I'm going to try them. Hopefully they hold and don't break. If you use these let me know how they stand up.

Now this last picture I've been very excited with. It's our garden! I can't wait to start planting!! But of course we had to wait til the compost was ready and mixed in real well. It's finally ready!




This turned out pretty simple as far as separating the recycle items and reusing veggie scraps tree clippings and manure for a compost. I really think the children learned a great deal. The hardest part was dealing with the smell. But that was only when we walked in there to drop off trash or take photos. Otherwise its so far away from everything no one could tell.

Any little bit helps.

Trashy Thursdays

Well today is Trashy Thursday, and I am pleased with our progress but disgusted by the smell! It's warming up here in sunny AZ and OMG it's getting nasty in there! Because it doesn't have a completed roof I've got flies galore! Plus apparently something was able to get in. The bags were all torn and I spent the morning putting the trash back in bags. Thank goodness I've got only 12 days left of this genius project of mine. What was I thinking???

On a positive note, the kids are realizing just how much we dump into the earth. Since recycling they've also noticed how much we could prevent. We ended up having way more recyclables than I thought we would have. So I ended up putting them into plastic bags.



Recycled items



Trash Week 3

Trashy Thursdays

Well change of plans. Who's knows me better than me? Mom! I was telling her my thoughts on this project, and she says, "you'll never go through that trash and pull out recyclables". Which is true I probably wouldn't! I'd have Hubby. ☺

This was her idea to place those to be recycled into a cardboard box. So I did.

Thanks Mom!!



Trash Day 12







How horrible to see all your junk food staring back at you. The kids don't get it very often. So the next time they whine about how I never buy them yummies, I'm showing them this!




Honestly I thought I'd have more trash than this! I do have a half filled one inside. Hey that's pretty good though.

Trashy Thursdays

For the month of March I said I would implement, as much as I could, about Earth friendly behavior into the kids school lessons. This is in honor of Earth Hour this month, which is the 28th at 8:30pm your local time. I know we should do this year round, but I guess somethings are better than nothing.

One of the things I wanted to do, was collect all the trash for the month to show how much an average family of 6 disposes of into the earth. So the kids can visually see their effect. It's gotta go somewhere. So I am designating my Thursday blogs to being Trashy Thursdays. A sort of update on the trash one family would dispose of.

I decided to put the trash in the not-yet-finished playhouse. Since no animal can get in and most of the roof is almost completed.

There are things in our pile that could be recycled, but I wanted the kids to see exactly how much we consume every month. Then recycle later, when the month is almost ending. We are however, still going to recycle what we find on our roads out here. That doesn't go with our stuff.


Here's Day 5